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8 Newberry Crater Rim Run – 38 miles

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This run is a classic Central Oregon long run. It’s starts at Ogden Trailhead and climbs up 9 miles to Paulina Lake, then you run the 20 mile rim loop around the caldera with good views of East Lake, Paulina Lake and the Cascades. There’s been some forest fire smoke in the area the past few days, so we ended up not getting the Cascade views due to the haze, but it’s still a great loop. Lewis Taylor from Eugene came over and met Krissy and I at Ogden Trailhead. He came early, as he’s peaking for Leadville 100 and he had already run 18 miles at 8am.

The 3 of us headed up to Paulina Lake where we’d pick up Chris and Darla, as they wanted to run the 20 mile rim loop only with White River 50 coming up next weekend. After a quick water fill up at the store we headed out on the loop. To gain the rim, you have to go from Paulina Lake at 6,300 feet to the summit of Paulina Peak at 7,985 feet in about 3ish miles. Good climb with great views. From that vantage point, you can see the entire rim at average elevation of 7,000 feet below you and can see the route your are about to embark on. This is a classic and I try to run it at least once per summer.

It proved to be really hot and I underestimated water and most of us ran out with about 6 miles to go (from Paulina Lake’s store). I pushed ahead of the group and got there about 10 minutes earlier. I immediately went to the bar, filled my bottles with ice and ice water from the bartender, chugged a Corona with a lime…can’t forget the lime…I’m sure I looked like hell. No shirt, sweaty, salt crust all over me, two fisting a corona and water bottle, downing a gel, salt tab, paid the barkeep and went to the store and drank a soda, ate some chips and cashews to try and recover from the bonk.

It worked okay, but once you go to bonkland for 45-60 minutes in a run, you never fully recover. Soon Lewis and Krissy showed up after dropping off Darla and Chris at their car, and we hung out and recovered for about 15 minutes. After that its the final 9 miles down to the trailhead from the lake.

Lewis, Krissy and I: Mile 29 for Krissy and I, Mile 47 for Lewis, after the store aid station, post-Corona and coming back from the bonk.

Lewis tacked on another 5 at the lake to get in 60 miles for the day (strong work, Lewis!), while Krissy and I headed for the car and the creek soak at the trailhead. It was a slog to get back. We both had run out of water on the rim loop and were groaning a bit on the death march to the car.

However, the creek soak was good, a little ultragen for recovery. A good day of hard training. One more hard weekend and taper for Waldo 100k.

1 Scar Challenge Correction

It has been recently brought to my attention that Ian Golden, former resident fast dude in Bend, who now owns Finger Lakes Running Company in Ithaca, NY, has indeed run ALL of the scar at Smith Rock. My former Smith Rock post credited Eric Skaggs as the only one to have been known to accomplished such a feat.

So, Ian, sorry for the oversight. And sorry, Mr. Skaggs, not a first. Strong work boys.

0 Ultimate stupidity

Well, I pulled a huge bonehead move on Sunday afternoon and joined in a pick-up game of ultimate frisbee with some kids from my church at the Easter Pot Luck at a park. After an AMAZING airborne frisbee grab, I landed in a decent sized hole and rolled my ankle horribly. Couldn’t walk on it for over 24 hours, heard a pop, thought I broke it, had it x-rayed on Monday…not fractured—thank the Lord. But, it’s severely sprained, super swollen and bruised. I currently have it in a splint boot to keep it immobilized, which allows me to walk without crutches. I can’t believe it! I was feeling really fit too! Jennifer told me not to play. Note to self: ALWAYS listen to your wife’s “sixth sense.”

Off to dunk my foot in ice…

2 Smith Rock BBQ

Well, we had our official first Smith Rock BBQ with beautiful spring weather. Now that I’m living right by Smith Rock State Park, I decided to host a post-training run Pot Luck BBQ at the new digs. Dan Harshburger put together a run leaving the main parking lot and another group of us started at Skull Hollow about mid-morning. Pictures courtesy of Olga…thanks, O!

We had a huge turn out for the training day and the Pot Luck BBQ was a success! Thanks to all that came out…we had representatives from all over…Portland, Ashland…sweet. A good buddy, Mark DeJohn from Active Therapeutics, who provides Active Release Technique and massage in Bend came out and worked on folks at the BBQ. Nice post long run treat.

Rod, Sean, Kami, Prudence, Olga, Gail, Stan, Mo and I started out from Skull Hollow water troughs at about 9am with all of us having different routes in mind, but wanting to run 3-5 hours. Rod, Kami, Sean, Prudence and I stuck together over Gray Butte and over to Cole’s Trail. Then, Kami, Sean and Prudence continued on Cole’s and Rod and I went down into Cougar Canyon and the loop over to Burma, Ridge line and Misery Ridge by Monkey Face to meet up with Billy Barnett and Eric Skaggs at the parking lot.

We met Billy and Eric coming down off Misery Ridge and we all ran back to the parking lot so Rod and I could refill water, as we’d been out a little over 2 1/2 hours. Next, we headed up Burma Road and as we ran up the goat trail that starts the Burma climb, Rod told Eric about the “Scar Challenge”…this is a challenge for anyone to run ALL of the scar trail (above Burma Saddle) that is over 500 feet in less than 1/2 mile, probably a 35% grade of loose rocks and pure crap, before mellowing out to climb the last 70-100 feet to summit Eagle’s Roost (above the Marsupials ). Hard and NO ONE has done it. Attempted, but to our knowledge no one had done it. All are humble to hike. Oh, prize…Rod buys lunch.

Well, Eric said he’d “try it”…lunch was on the line. We ran all of Burma and Eric proceeds to yes, RUN ALL OF THE SCAR. He left Rod, Billy and I in his wake with our jaws open. Nice work bro!!!! It was the sweetest thing I’ve seen is a long while. He busted a move after running Misery Ridge, Burma AND hard hill repeats the day before at Pilot Butte with Billy. Eric, you da man! Nice work bro. Glad I got to witness the climbing prowess.

And, of course, Eric was completely humble about the whole thing and said of the experience “it was a maximum effort” …ya think?! Dang homie. Well, needless to say we were FREAKING out, givin’ knuckles, kudos…sweet. Rod and I thought it was one of those little challenges that’s pretty much impossible. Thanks for proving us wrong, Eric. Now I’m wondering if I can run it? Hmm. Just like the 4 minute mile barrier…one does it, proves it can be done…lots more step up and do it too…could this be one of those? No pain, no gain.

Afterward the BBQ was good, beer was good. My kids loved the Honey Bunny (bread shaped like a rabbit) that Billy brought (he’s one of the bakers at Great Harvest Bakery)…it was delicious! Thanks Big B on the Harmony Tip!

Thanks to everyone who came out and hung out at the farm. Giddyup.

0 Runnin’

Well, I’m back running again after almost 4 weeks off (actually 24 days to be exact). I was commuting on my bike across town from a morning meeting at Bend Bike N Sport on the 24th day and decided I couldn’t take it anymore. Footzone was starting their winter Tuesday-Thursday Noon Run that day. I pedaled like a madman home, grabbed my gear and jammed downtown on my cross bike to run. Felt like crap for that run, but felt good to be back at it again.

The 2nd week, however, with my wife and kids out of town for the week, I went crazy and ran and mountain biked everyday. By end of the week, my hip flexor was giving me fits. I took 5 days off and now I’m back running again and feeling good, as long as I stretch and don’t overdo it. I’m sure sitting in front of the computer everyday doesn’t help the hip flexor.